On "Meet the Press," Mitt Romney said -- explicitly -- that he will appoint judges who will overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Previously, I always presumed that the Republicans secretly liked things the way they are, since legal abortion has a powerful GOTV effect on the conservative base. But Mitt needs to appease his base, and this is how he's going to do it.
He has also said that the bipartisan debt reduction deal was a huge mistake. Without that deal, we would now be in a worse-than-Greece situation.
Romney has suggested that Obama wants to take the word "God" off our coins. Obama never said a word along those lines.
I know that many of my readers can't stand Obama. Hell, I still haven't exactly warmed up to the guy. But only a GOP troll would rationalize away the importance of the the abortion and debt reduction issues.
On another topic: Will an ultra-conservative Constitution Party candidate siphon votes away from Romney in Virginia? Previously, I had thought that Obama had no chance in that state, but now...well, maybe.
The Rachel Maddow clip embedded above doesn't get to the Virginia situation until about the half-way mark. Before that point, she gives us a lot of horse-race stuff -- and everything she says points to one unspoken truth: Romney is restricting his campaign only to those states where the Republicans control the Secretaries of States, who will no doubt game the system.
Ohio is key. And with John Husted in control of that state's election, I don't see how Romney can lose.
Sunday, 9 September 2012
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